Everything else is "it's fast and exciting and fun" which sounds pretty appealing.
My next "new" car will be something used that has physical dials and switches. I'll spend the differential $ on rebuilding engine/trannie and other wearable components.
I do not ever want to look away from my driver's sight picture to adjust something like AC or radio.
In your tesla all you might have to do is say "left driver seat window down" and the window opens. If you only want it halfway down you will have to say "stop" at the right point.
Of course if your aunt borrows your car she will have no idea how to roll down the window because she doesn't know the proper voice control.
Of course it won't work when the window is open and you're driving fast because of the noise.
Of course you won't be able to remember all of the voice controls, and will inevitably end up screaming at your car to open the hood because you don't remember exactly which words to use.
Of course, before you go on your first ride you should read the manual and memorise all the voice controls.
Of course you should never say the words "open hood" while driving for obvious reasons.
Do you still think voice control is a great idea in a car?
Maybe a combination of a more seamless UI like Star Trek along voice with control then?
Voice controls as imagined by science fiction like Star Trek and implemented by Apple, Amazon, some cars, etc. are one of the worst UI designs imaginable. Vocal communication is a Hollywood trope to make up for the fact that flipping a light switch doesn't make for compelling television. Vocal communication is slow, ambiguous, leaky, and distracting, whereas mechanical interfaces can be operated almost subconsciously. How long does it take you to depress the brake pedal in a car, versus, "Okay Google, [long pause, waiting for enough cell bandwidth] please stop before you hit that car in front of me!"
Sure, you might say cars will take care of stopping automatically. But that just proves the point that voice is an unsuitable UI medium. And cars don't yet stop autonomously with 100% reliability, and there are a thousand less critical but more common interactions with everyday systems that are just ridiculous for voice: turning on lights, adjusting the volume of a stereo, locking a door, etc. The last holiday party I went to the hosts were using an Echo for music, and the entire conversation had to pause for 30 seconds every time someone wanted to change the volume. Give me sensor-based automation, give me switches and knobs, give me anything but a voice interface.
When I'm driving I find it less distracting to adjust the AC or the music via knobs, than to use the voice activated calling function. Mind you my cars speech recognition is quick and superb, but skipping a track, adjusting a mirror, or setting the air conditioner are automatic and don't require me to focus on anything else but driving. I doubt voice everything will make anything safer.
> Everything else is "it's fast and exciting and fun" which sounds pretty appealing.
These two are in conflict. The main expensive option was the range option, which also makes it accelerate faster.